ABOUT US
tmgroup is a forward-thinking technology business that is using software and data to provide more efficient, more accurate and easy to use services for conveyancers and other property professionals.
We have huge empathy for our clients, which means we’re considering their challenges at every stage.
This ‘client+design’ philosophy enables us to produce high-quality, user-focused products and provide the right advice.
This is why we make the complexities in the property transaction beautifully simple.
WHY WE DO,
WHAT WE DO
Our continued goal is to simplify the complex issues that are often found in property transactions.
WHO DO WE HELP?
We work with conveyancers and other professionals across every stage of the property transaction. All our clients are looking for maximum value and efficiency.
WHAT WE DO
We’re trusted to simplify the complex issues that can be found in property transactions.
HOW WE DO IT
We translate data, software and industry knowledge into user-focused design.
OUR PEOPLE
Our people truly care about making the property transaction as efficient and easy as possible. Learn more about the teams that make time for you.
Sherif Yasser Mostafa
Team Leader - DrainageJoined the team in: July 2018
Job in a nutshell: Overseeing the drainage team to ensure smooth operations, including the accuracy of search data and quality control of reports.
Richard Jolly
Titles Team LeaderJoined the team in: July 2018
Job in a nutshell: Overseeing the drainage team to ensure smooth operations, including the accuracy of search data and quality control of reports.
Nigel Bishop
Managed Services Manager”You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are now and change the ending.”
Joined the team in: January 2008
Job in a nutshell: Managing, developing and motivating my colleagues to provide client service excellence.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Setting up, developing and managing our Portfolio Managed service.
Icebreaker: Ask me about… “Anything”. It’s good to talk!
Kate Barlow
Supplier Manager“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
Joined the team in: November 2017
Job in a nutshell: Ensuring our supply chain ‘does what it says on the tin’.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Winning Employee of the Year 2018
Icebreaker: Ask me about… where to find the best pasty in Cornwall
Timothy Koncowski
Service Delivery Manager“Life is too short to find matching socks”
Joined the team in: December 2011
Job in a nutshell: Managing supplier and local authority performance for the benefit of our clients
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Making it to manager
Icebreaker: Ask me about my current goal to run a half marathon
Claire Elliott
Regional Sales Manager (North)“There’s always a solution”
Joined the team in: May 2021
Job in a nutshell: Oversee our Northern team and ensure all of our great clients receive the best support and service from us.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Promoted to Regional Manager in less than a year of service.
Icebreaker: Ask me about my dog.
Jamie Shah
Commercial and Real Estate Director“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
Joined the team in: March 2015.
Job in a nutshell: Managing the relationship with our Real Estate clients whilst maintaining a high level of knowledge of company products and services.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Being promoted twice in my first year at tm, resulting in managing relationships with some of the largest Real Estate firms in the country.
Icebreaker: Ask me about the time I went trekking through the mountains in Kashmir with my wife and (at the time) 2 year old daughter.
Rebecca Lander
Strategic Account Manager“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans – John Lennon“
Joined the team in: 2017
Job in a nutshell: Manage and recruit corporate entities by helping them become more efficient through product choices and technology.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Joining the TM integration task force. This made me feel like my journey so far at TM and CDS had been a successful one and my opinion is valued through knowledge of the market, the key players and how technology can support efficiencies across the industry.
Icebreaker: Ask me about… My little girl, or not so little. 6 going on 16. All my efforts at work are so we can have a lovely life together.
Joel Swann
Business Development Director”Because in business it doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it.”
Joined the team in: August 2018
Job in a nutshell: Building new relationships with law firms to identify how and where our services can help their business.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: being successful in two job interviews.
Icebreaker: I am massive Manchester United fan, ask me about any of the 38 trophies Sir Alex Ferguson won and the time I met him.
Jon Horton
Product Director”If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too”
Joined the team in: January 2002
Job in a nutshell: Responsible for delivering a market-leading product that helps everyone in the home moving process.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Developing the mio product from trial to national launch inside 12 months & receiving ‘Gold’ at The Negotiator Awards 2019 on behalf of the team.
Icebreaker: Ask me about… the world of triathlon.
Adrian Champ
Head of Data & Analytics“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -Colin Powell
Joined the team in: 2005
Job in a nutshell: Responsible for database performance, design and maintenance
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: mentoring junior members of staff and seeing them progress their careers.
Icebreaker: Ask me about my Lego collection
James Canfer
Head of IT operations“I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence.” – Ayrton Senna
Joined the team in: July 2006
Job in a nutshell: I ensure that our IT infrastructure is properly designed and continues to underpin and deliver our services come what may.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Co-leading the project team that successfully migrated our managed service from one hosting partner to another, on time, on budget and without any significant issues.
Icebreaker: Ask me about the spaniel swimming in the canal…
Russel Tinnion
Principal Geospatial Specialist“Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.”
Joined the team in: October 1997.
Job in a nutshell: Enabling our customers to make informed decisions about a defined location, based on known “risk”, such as “flood”, in near real-time.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Delivering the first commercial mapping service of the now ubiquitous Ordnance Survey MasterMap dataset.
Icebreaker: Ask me about the time I went hiking dressed as a Smurf!
Thomas Maerz
CEOJoined the team in: Thomas joined TM Group in August 2023 following the acquisition of the business by private equity investor Aurelius
Job in a nutshell: Guidance, empowerment, and strategy to successfully achieve our goals together as a team.
Biggest achievement: 15 years’ experience delivering complex change programmes in private equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, and investment banking
Icebreaker: A smile. Tell me how I can help to make your job easier
Nick Richards
CFO”At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel” – Maya Angelou
Joined the team in: July 2019
Job in a nutshell: Responsible for all matters relating to the financial control and corporate governance of tm, with day-to-day responsibility for the effective operation of the finance function and advice to the wider business
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Changing the business planning process to be more collaborative and not just something finance does
Icebreaker: Ask me about the time I did the 3 Yorkshire Peaks challenge with my teenage daughter
Jonathan Stebbings
Chief Commercial Officer“Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching”
Joined the team in: February 2022, co-founder of CDS in 2010
Job in a nutshell: Lead engagement with Industry Partners and Suppliers, ensuring we offer best services and products to our clients.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Being a co-founder of CDS and being acquired by tmgroup is my personal biggest achievement to date!
Icebreaker: Ask me about my love of playing and watching sport and how that got me into the Conveyancing Search industry!
Jane Towner
Customer Experience Director“If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” – Maya Angelou
Joined the team in: August 2003
Job in a nutshell: Ensuring tm’s service and conveyancing solution products are right for our clients
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: There are so many highlights, but working with great people and supporting colleagues in leading tm towards the next chapter never gets old.
Icebreaker: Ask me about… My love of family holidays exploring the Dorset coast, despite numerous trips to the Tank Museum with my husband and sons!
Michael Tolland
Commercial Director, PSS“Be the best version of you”
Joined the team in: October 2012
Job in a nutshell: I run the hugely successful Scottish branch of tm – Property Searches Scotland.
Biggest achievement at tmgroup: Our team winning the prestigious Support Team of the Year award for exceptional customer service at the Scottish Legal Awards in 2020.
Icebreaker: Ask me about… Taking up marathon running in my mid-forties and completing 6 marathons in Paris (x2), Barcelona, Rome, Amsterdam and Valencia.
WANT TO JOIN THE TEAM?
tmgroup is filled with naturally curious people. We’re always asking ourselves how we can make things better and easier for our clients. Is that a culture you want to be a part of?
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